Baling-press



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER K. DEDERIOK, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,565, dated December26, 1882.

Application tiled March Q4, 18S2. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PETER K. DEDERIGK,

l of Albany, in the county of Albany and State bodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a view illustrating a modification of the means for operatingthe condenser; and Fig. 3 is a detail view, showing a portion of thehorse lever and toggle.

This invention relates to that class of baling-presses known ascontinuous77 or perpetual presses, for which Letters Patent were grantedme on the 29th day of October, 1872, numbered 132,566 and 132,629, andfor which other Letters Patent for various modh'- cations have sincebeen granted me.

My present improvements will first be described, and then pointed outparticularly in the claims at the end of this specification.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the bale-chamber ofthe press; B,the press-box; O, the traverser; D, the pitman forming one arm ofthetoggle; E, the other arm of the toggle,

. mounted on the shaft F and articulated to the pitman D, as shownclearly in Figs. 1 and 3. G is the sweep or horse-lever, carrying at itsinner end a segmental portion, G', mounted centrallyT upon the shaft F,and having rollers or studs G2 G2 at its corners, as shown. His thehopper having the feed-orifice I, and K is the condenser, adapted toreciprocate back and forth into the hopper and crowd the loose materialtherein forward over the feed-oritice, in position to be thrust downinto the pressbox, as` usual in this class ot' presses.

In the operation of the press the horse attached to the sweep is causedto make a halfcircle and then, reversing his motion, to proceed back tostarting-point. This vibrates the sweep and causes the wheels orprojections G2 G2 to alternatelyr engage with the arm D of the toggleand carry the toggle t0- ward and Apast the center. Each time the armsof the toggle are made to come into line from right to left thetraverser, with the sec` tion ot' material in frontot it, is drivenforward and the material is forced from the press-box into thebale-chamber; but as soon as the toggle passes the center the backexpansion of the pressed material causes the traverser to be forced backand the toggle to pass to the limit ofits stroke from right to left, inposition to be at once operated upon by the sweep in its reversemovement from left to right. Each half-turn and reverse of the horsetherefore produces two complete reciprocations of the traverser.

In a former patent granted ine-viz., No. 151,477-the toggle is shovlinoperated by a half-turn-and-reverse movementof the sweep, and thetogglel isthrown to the limit of its movement by the back expansion ofthe pressed material against the traverser independent ot the movementof the horse-lever, as in the present case; but in said patent thecondenser is connected to the traverser and must move with it at alltimes. In the present case, however, the condenser is independent of thetraverser and operated directly by the horse-lever, an moves.

Various ways may be devised for connecting the condenser to thehorse-lever. For instance, a staff, O, may be mounted on thehorse-lever. and this in turn connected to the condenser K by a pitman,L, or the horselcver may be rigidly secured to the shaft F, and an arm,M, also rigidly secured to said shaft, as shown in Fig. 2, may beconnected at one end to the condenser and at the other tothe arm. Otherforms might be devised, itonly being necessary that the connection bemade so that the condenser may move with 'the horse-lever andindependently ot the movement ofthe traverser.

In operating the machine in the manner described, the power of the horsebeing applied alternately in opposite directions, the strain on theframe is very great and soon causes it to swing and sway at the centerat every movement of the animal. 'lo overcome this l provide the frameat -both top and bottom with truss-rods N N, extending on each d movesonly when the lever IOO side of the hopper, wit-h their ends broughttothe reciprocating` traverser, the toggle, andthe gether or crossed andsecured as shown, and vibrating sweep or horse-lever, operating aseftectually accomplish the object. described, with the feed-hopper andcondenser 15 Having thus described my invention, I and connections bywhich the condenser is 5 claim as newoperated from the horse-lever, andindepend- 1. In a continuously-operating heling-press, ently of thetraverser, substantially as detlie combination, with the traverser, ofthe scribed. pitman and crank forming the toggle, and then Uf ivibrating horse-lever or sweep having the I" 1x' DEDERHJK' roprojections or rollers for alternately shifting fitnessesz the toggle,substantially as described. W. A. SKINKLE,

2. In nv continuo11sl},'operatingheling-press, ,I R. DEDERICK.

